Fire-lighting attachment for clocks



(No Modelg) 7 W. GUILMEI & J. LE BLANO.

FIRE LIGHTING. ATTACHMENT FOR CLOCKS.

No. 595,773. Patented D60. 21, 1897.

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WILLIAM GUILMET AND JOSEPH LE BLANG, OF LEWISTON, MAINE.

FIRE-LIGHTING ATTACHMENT FORCLOCKS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,773, dated December 21, 1897. Application filed July 6, 1897. Serial No. 643,647. (No model) To all whom it 11mg concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM GUILMET and JOSEPH LE BLANC, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Lewiston, in the county of Androscoggin and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fire-Lighting Attachments for Clocks; and we do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to improvements in clocks, and especially to an attachment which may be applied to alarm-clocks, so called, by means of which a match may be ignited at a certain time and fire communicated therefrom to a stove or range.

The object of our invention is to provide means whereby a fire in a stove or grate may be lighted at a certain time without the intervention of any person or the presence there at the time of any person.

To this end it consists of a disk provided with a rim, a portion of which rim is cut away, attached to the shaft which operates the alarm on the clock, a lever-arm pivotally mounted on the back of the clock and provided with a hook which is adapted to fit over the rim of the disk, means for causing said hook to be released from the disk, means for holding the match rigidly in position, and means for causing the said match to be ignited.

In the drawings herewith accompanying and forming a part of this application, Figure 1 is an elevation of the back of the clock, showing our invention attached thereto. Fig. 2 is a detail of the lever-arm, showing the hook and the fingers in which the match and other inflammable material are held. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the clock, parts being broken away to show the means of attaching the revolving disk to the alarm-shaft.

Same letters refer to like parts.

In said drawings, Arepresents the back of an ordinary clock, commonly known to the trade as an alarm-clock. Attached to the shaft B, which operates the alarm mechanism and which also serves as a means for winding said mechanism, is a disk 0, provided with a raised rim D, a portion of which is cut away,

as seen at E. Also attached to the back of the clock is a lever-arm F, provided with a hook G and hooked end H, said hooked end being adapted to fit over rim D on disk 0. Also attached to lever-arm F and extending at right angles therefrom and made integral therewith is an offset I. Attached to this offset are spring-fingers J, the upper member of which is provided with a raised portion K for the reception of a match or other easilyignitible article. Said lever-arm is pivotally attached to a shaft L and adapted to revolve thereon. Attached to alug (not shown in the drawings) on the lower end of the lever-arm is a spring M. There is also the stop N, attached to the back of the clock and adapted to receive one end of the spring and to keep the same closely wound and also to serve as a stop for the lever-arm F and prevent the same from traveling too far. Attached also to the back of the clock and in the path in which the fingers J will travel when the leverarm F has been released is an abrasive plate 0, against which the match or other ignitible article is caused to bear when the catch has been released.

The operation of our improved device is as follows: The match is surrounded by paper or other easily-combustible material which leads from the fingers J into the stove and underneath the grate thereof and may be carried, if so desired, upwardly between the grate-bars. This paper is so arranged that when the match is ignited by its passage across the abrasive plate 0 fire'will be communicated from said match to said paper or other easily-combustible material and conducted therefrom to the grate, which has been previously arranged so that fire may be lighted therein. By this intervention of paper or similar material the fire is carried from the match to the grate of the stove and communicated to the material in the grate arranged for lighting.

Having thus described our invention and its use, we claim- In a device for lighting fires, in combination, a plate attached to the rotatable shaft of the alarm mechanism of 'aclock, said plate being provided on its outer surface with a rim, a portion of which is cut away, a leverarm provided with a hook on its end adapted a lateral movement, substantially as and for to engage the rim of said revolving plate, the the purposes set forth.

lever-arm capable of being detached from In testimony whereof We aflix our signasaid revolving plate when its hooked end regtures, in presence of two Witnesses, this 20th I 5 5 isters with the cut-away portion in the rim of day of June, A. D. 1897.

the revolving plate, said lever-arm being also provided with fingers for holding a match or L Z 2 other easi1y-ignitible article, an abrasive J plate placed in the path traveled by the match WVitnesses: I0 on said lever-arm, a spring surrounding the EDGAR F. CONANT,

lower end of said lever-arm to give the same M. L. LIZOTTE. 

